Parcelforce website failure exposes consumer data

LONDON – Parcelforce Worldwide came close to breaching the Data Protection Act when personal consumer data including signatures were exposed to those tracking deliveries on Parcelforce’s internet tracking service.

Bradford to leave senior Emap post after just one year

LONDON – Emap, the business-to-business group behind Broadcast and Draper magazines, has confirmed one of its most senior managers, Neil Bradford, is leaving the company after just one year.

PKR.com relaunches poker site with social networking features

LONDON – Online poker room PKR.com has relaunched its website adding social networking and community features as well as poker related content from Dennis Publishing.

News International ends £30m deal with Dawson Holdings

LONDON – News International has become the latest newspaper publisher to terminate its contract with Dawson Holdings.

ITV relaunches its online offer for advertisers

LONDON – ITV is revamping its online offer for agencies and advertisers to place greater emphasis on its range of content.

Campaign Big Awards entry deadline extended

LONDON – The official deadline for entries to the Campaign Big Awards 2009 has been extended to Friday 26 June.

Digicom appoints Forrester to manage sales and marketing

LONDON – Digicom, the digital out-of-home sales house run by former CBS Outdoor international chief executive Tom Goddard, has hired CBS Outdoor head of sales Chris Forrester as its first managing director of sales and marketing.

Littlewoods Direct rebrands to capture younger audience

LONDON – Shop Direct Group, the UK’s largest home shopping business, is to rebrand Littlewoods Direct as it seeks to target a younger online customer base.

Viral View – Nike’s “Most Valuable Puppet” campaign

LONDON – GoViral takes a look at the best new viral advertising on the web.

Cancer Research UK partners with Spotify for virtual festival

LONDON – Cancer Research UK has tied with Spotify to create a virtual music event, intended to boost awareness of the music site as well as raise money for the charity.

Touchwall Demo

Un mur tactile géant à la fois multitouch et multi-utilisateurs. Créé par la société Schematic, ce mur sera utilisé à Cannes lors du festival de la publicité. Il est capable de reconnaître les participants grâce à leurs badges RFID et de leur proposer un espace de travail personnalisé.



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L’écran affiche aussi des cartes 3D indiquant aux participants où ils devront se rendre, et propose un réseau social sur lequel les utilisateurs peuvent se laisser des messages.

Glasgow 2014 hunts for agency to create new identity

LONDON – The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games is searching for an agency to create a brand identity to help promote the games globally.

Vodafone sponsors MySpace online music studio

LONDON – Vodafone has signed a deal with MySpace to sponsor the social networking site’s newly revamped online music studio, where users can remix and record tracks.

IBM launches Wimbledon mobile app

LONDON – IBM is aiming to help tennis fans navigate their way around Wimbledon and keep up to date with all the latest championship info with a new mobile campaign.

WorkSafe Victoria: Body-O-Matic

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Unfortunately, there’s no easy fix when it comes to work place incidents. There are no panel beaters, precision painters, restorations or cheap and readily available replacement body parts. When you damage your body in a serious work place incident, the injury is for life. To highlight the consequences of poor work safety practices, WorkSafe Victoria brought to life the terrifying nature of work place incidents with this striking installation. A vending machine designed to sell spare body parts. The Body-O-Matic.

Advertising Agency: Lifelounge, Melbourne, Australia
Creative Director / Copywriter: Daniel Pollock
Associate Creative Director/Art Director: David Ponce de León
Designer: Michael Pham
Model makers: Odd Studio, Sydney
Account Executives: Luke Veale, Richard Hayes
Released: April 2009

MediMax: Shave on the go

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Advertising Agency: BBDO, Dusseldorf, Germany
Chief Creative Officer: Jan Leube
Copywriter: Douglas Tracy
Art Director: Shelley Lui
Account Executive: Steffen Schumann
Account Apprentice: Danae Strauss
Photographer: Ugur Orhanuglu
Editor: Astrid Krause

Music labels win $2m retrial of Kazaa file sharing case

LONDON – The Recording Industry Association of America, the trade body for music labels such as Universal and Warner, has been awarded $1.92m in damages in the retrial of the Kazaa music swapping case of US woman Jammie Thomas-Rasset.

Premier League waits on £10m from Setanta

LONDON – Sports pay-TV broadcaster Setanta must make a crucial £10m payment today to prevent the English Premier League retendering its rights to the coming season’s games as bidders wait on the sidelines.

Sensodyne: Ice Cream, Cup

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Advertising Agency: MatosGrey, Brazil
Creative Directors: Silvio Matos, Guy Costa, Leandro Castilho
Copywriters: Silvio Matos, Leandro Castilho
Art Director: Guy Costa
Art Buyers: Gustavo Santos, Bruna Tombolatto
Advertiser’s Supervisor: Tim Wright

Another flashmob at the swimming pool for T-Mobile

I am bored with their flashmob!!! Now this new video is a fake flashmob at the swimming pool.. "Life’s for sharing" Advertiser: T-Mobile Agency: MUW Saatchi & Saatchi Creative Director: Rasto Michalik Creative: Milan Bielik; Denisa Pajkosova; Mario Poor; Peter Rajcak; Ivo Zemanovic […]